Jim Rogers Quotes

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

Like Forrest Gump, I just took off and it paid off.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Perseverance brings good luck.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Keep hustling, something good will happen.

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.